Guides/Cooking for Dummies - Revision history

Hanjo at 07:05, 20 June 2016

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Hanjo at 07:03, 20 June 2016

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Step 4: Ready, Set, SINK!

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The Foundation of this Guide

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Step 7: Advanced Dummies

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−	''My thanks to the glorious chef [[User:Roi\|Roi]] who very generously gave his time to answer ''really'' confused questions while I was working out the fundamentals of cooking, and encouraged me to document what wasn't clear to me from the Wiki. This guide is the result of that process. Thanks also to ~~[[User:~~Hanjo~~\|Hanjo]]~~ who did up the math for the calculators.''	+	''My thanks to the glorious chef [[User:Roi\|Roi]] who very generously gave his time to answer ''really'' confused questions while I was working out the fundamentals of cooking, and encouraged me to document what wasn't clear to me from the Wiki. This guide is the result of that process. Thanks also to Hanjo who did up the math for the calculators.''

	==The Foundation of this Guide==		==The Foundation of this Guide==

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−	''My thanks to the glorious chef [[User:Roi\|Roi]] who very generously gave his time to answer ''really'' confused questions while I was working out the fundamentals of cooking, and encouraged me to document what wasn't clear to me from the Wiki. This guide is the result of that process. Thanks also to Hanjo who did up the math for the calculators.''	+	''My thanks to the glorious chef [[User:Roi\|Roi]] who very generously gave his time to answer ''really'' confused questions while I was working out the fundamentals of cooking, and encouraged me to document what wasn't clear to me from the Wiki. This guide is the result of that process. Thanks also to [[User:Hanjo\|Hanjo]] who did up the math for the calculators.''

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 ==Step 4: Ready, Set, SINK!==
-Before you eat any meal, you must first eat a helping of Sink Food. The fact that you need a pot for mandatory sink food ''and'' a pot for real food is why anyone cooking has at least '''two''' kitchens. Why? Because if you don't, you will contibutw towards broken herbs, and a '''Very Bad Thing''' will happen:
+Before you eat any meal, you must first eat a helping of Sink Food. The fact that you need a pot for mandatory sink food ''and'' a pot for real food is the reason anyone cooking has at least '''two''' kitchens. Why? Because if you don't, you will contibutw towards broken herbs, and a '''Very Bad Thing''' will happen:
 <span style="color:red">Eating food made with herbs without eating sink first food diminishes the potency of that herb in all future recipes for everyone all across Egypt.</span> This effective is cumulative, so the more people who do it, the more a specific herb will be diminished. DO NOT BREAK HERBS!

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 Cooking in ATITD is great. It gives you stats! Who doesn't want to be able to run faster, carry more, or get more from a hookah? ''Everyone'' should be able to do it.
-People who want to learn to cook are most commonly referred to the [[Recipes]] page for example recipes, and to the famous [http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Ariella_and_Pascalito_Cooking_Tutorial Ariella and Pascalito's Cooking Tutorial] to learn about how recipes work and to learn how to craft your own. People who excel at cooking in ATITD are typically very involved in the science and maths of food ingredients and their combinations, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to people like this. Without them, we would have no food and would long ago have starved to death (while running very slowly.)
+People who want to learn to cook are most commonly referred to the [[Recipes]] page for example recipes, and to the famous [http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Ariella_and_Pascalito_Cooking_Tutorial Ariella and Pascalito's Cooking Tutorial] to learn about how recipes work and to learn how to craft your own. People who excel at cooking in ATITD are typically very involved in the science and maths of food ingredients and their combinations, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to chefs like this. Without them, we would have no food and would long ago have starved to death (while running very slowly.)
 But for the Dummy Cook, creating recipes is not cooking; creating recipes is advanced wizardry. ''Cooking'' is throwing some food in a pot to make a meal. In other words, to make an omelette, I don't need to know the science of an egg's albumin breakdown; I just need to know that for a country omelette, I hardly stir my eggs in the pan at all, and for a classic French omelette, I stir them almost constantly as they cook. (Thanks, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10etP1p2bU Jacques Pippin]!)

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 To fix this situation quickly, eat your sink food again on its own or eat some grilled cabbage. Both will reset your stats. Throw the pot of bad food against the wall and start over. Welcome to the joy of cooking!
-==Step 7: Advanced Dummies==
+==Step 7: Advanced Gastronomy==
 If you enjoy cooking, it is worth it to get to [[Gastronomy]] 7. This skill will let you examine a cooked dish with a new "Critically Evaluate this Food" option when you click your kitchen. This will give you all the stats on your food and also tell you how long it will last. For reasons I don't understand because I am not a wizard, old recipes on the wiki are now more potent, so you may actually be getting better time or better stats increases than the ones listed for what you're cooking. Fun!

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 ==Step 4: Ready, Set, SINK!==
-Before you eat any meal, you must first eat a helping of Sink Food. The fact that you need a pot for mandatory sink food ''and'' a pot for real food is why anyone cooking has at least '''two''' kitchens. Why? Because if you don't, two Very Bad Things can happen.
+Before you eat any meal, you must first eat a helping of Sink Food. The fact that you need a pot for mandatory sink food ''and'' a pot for real food is why anyone cooking has at least '''two''' kitchens. Why? Because if you don't, a '''Very Bad Thing''' can happen:
-First, you can eat a meal to make you run faster, but end up almost frozen. You can be carrying nothing but 20 straw and suddenly be told ''You are carrying too much. Would you like to drop something?'' Eating sink food has no noticeable effect on your stats, but ''not'' eating sink food can eventually kick you in the rear.
+<span style="color:red">Eating food made with herbs without eating sink first food diminishes the potency of that herb in all future recipes for everyone all across Egypt.</span> This effective is cumulative, so the more people who do it, the more a specific herb will be diminished. DO NOT BREAK HERBS!
 '''Seriously, people: SINK FOOD FIRST.'''

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 First, you can eat a meal to make you run faster, but end up almost frozen. You can be carrying nothing but 20 straw and suddenly be told ''You are carrying too much. Would you like to drop something?'' Eating sink food has no noticeable effect on your stats, but ''not'' eating sink food can eventually kick you in the rear.
-Second, and this is the really important part: <span style="color:red">eating food made with herbs without eating sink first food diminishes the potency of that herb in all future recipes for everyone all across Egypt.</span> This effective is cumulative, so the more people who do it, the more a specific herb will be diminished.
+Second, and this is the really important part: <span style="color:red">eating food made with herbs without eating sink first food diminishes the potency of that herb in all future recipes for everyone all across Egypt.</span> This effective is cumulative, so the more people who do it, the more a specific herb will be diminished. DO NOT BREAK HERBS!
 '''Seriously, people: SINK FOOD FIRST.'''

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 ==Step 6: This Has All Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong==
-The biggest thing new cooks trip over is not reviewing ''all'' of the stats for a given recipe. It is great to make food with DEX of 5 or 18 or whatever to run fast, but if that recipe also has negative strength, you're not going to be able to carry anything, and may be unable to move with the items you've already got until you drop some.
+The biggest thing new cooks trip over is not reviewing ''all'' of the stats for a given recipe. (Ask me how I know...) It is great to make food with DEX of 5 or 18 or whatever to run fast, but if that recipe also has negative strength, you're not going to be able to carry anything, and may be unable to move with the items you've already got until you drop some.
 If the recipe looks good for all the stats you need but something unexpected and unwelcome has happened, it is likely your recipe proportions were wrong. Click your kitchen, choose ''Show the Recipe'', and check your ingredients and math for ''both'' your sink food ''and'' your main meal.